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On other terms, this is a declaration of mental bankruptcy. I reached a personal dead end.

Antique views on netiquette are usually the proper views. Like frowning upon the use of html in emails. We all know that tags like *bold* and /italic/ are a lot lighter and just as effective in mails, <strong>bold</strong> is just wrong in a mail, don't you think?

I don't really care as long there are no wriggly GIFs or other imbedded stuff I get eye-cancer from. BUT anything scriptlike gets the instant ban-hammer.
I spent too much time delousing PCs for other people because of that sort of sh*t.

That delousing is another important reason why Netiquette rules are good to be lived be, esp for the Unenlightened. I don't process my email in the most popular OS, so that is no issue here.

What I don't understand is why in a good client like ThunderBird, for some time I need to turn off html mail, while the devs know how much bad can come out of that, when the client is in the hands of a newbie (= oblivious to netiquette)

Now you are mixing a social behaviour rule set (netiquette) with common sense in technical expertise (or lack of). No offense.

I do know a lot of newbs who are living netiquette without even knowing the word itself - still they are technically fair game for everything foul in the net because they lack basic security knowledge.